In early May, students at Cooper Union - one of the last tuition-free colleges in the US - occupied the offices of CU president Jamshed Bharucha in protest at the proposed introduction of tuition fees next year. For the past two weeks, their reclaimed territory has been open for a landmark exhibition.

Decolonizing Architecture/Art Residency (DAAR,) are an art and architecture collective based in Palestine, whose work critically examines the role played by architecture in the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Tom Bennett visited 'Common Assembly' their current exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary.

The Jewish Museum in New York is currently exhibiting images by the 'Photo League', a group of photographers whose socio-political work was blacklisted in Cold War America. Janine DeFeo, Ceasefire's art critic, explores the exhibition.

A Soviet-nostalgia revival seems to be under way, with John Hodge's new play 'The Collaborators' and the Royal Academy's new exhibition on Soviet Art and Architecture. Musab Younis, Ceasefire's deputy editor, reviews.